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Re: Shingeki no Kyojin Anime Discussion

yup, eren in the manga is pretty awesome.

anyone watched the first episode of the english dub? i did and quite liked it. it was sometimes unvoluntarily funny (hannes!) but the most important parts they nailed... i've nothing to complain about there. some dialogues were slightly changed; kids are sassier (yeah, even mikasa). armin's such a little shit, on one hand, yeah, it's pretty bad his characterization slightly deviates from the original, on the other - i had a ball.
and erwin has a higher voice and sounds younger than in the japanese version, but, lord, that suits him. i can't wait for episodes with him (and his screams! damn he's gonna sound damn sexy in this version.

Re: Shingeki no Kyojin Anime Discussion

Originally Posted by teiran

yup, eren in the manga is pretty awesome.

If it keeps taking inspiration from Muv Luv then good God....
Takeru casually solo'd what's like the Equivalant of 23 Colossal Titans, 48 20+m Titans and countless 5m Classes without even being touched by them in about 3 minutes.
No literally, they weren't able to touch him.

Re: Shingeki no Kyojin Anime Discussion

Oh no I lost track and thought I replied already. I'm so sorry I apparently didn't! OTL

Originally Posted by jakensama

1. Sounds like the manga handled Eren much better. He seems so one dimensional in the anime despite his storied history, all he has been through, his relationships. Hope they do a better job next season.

2. So the 2nd OVA was based on Omake...that's nice, so it still is based on the manga.

3. I kind of spoiled myself by looking at the wiki (titan shifter, different characters, etc). However I'll probably wait for the next season of the anime. I would appreciate (in spoiler tags of course for others) details on any other manga/anime differences though.

As teiran said, yes, manga Eren is better (with room for improvement). Not sure what other details to spell out though.

in the manga, Eren got pointers from Annie during their training squad days?

I suppose they didn't have enough time to present everything from training and that's probably why they moved most of the training squad flashbacks earlier than they are in the manga. (At the same time it feels like they gave Jean extra time in the anime with the three or so filler scenes he got.)

Fellow manga readers can correct me if I'm wrong but here are what I remember as filler scenes for Jean:
• the infamous "running around exposed to the titans in Trost with no 3dmg" scene
• Jean and Armin talk it out in the last episode in Stohess over Eren not being able to transform
• Jean and Armin hanging out while Eren is in bed recovering

Re: Shingeki no Kyojin Anime Discussion

Originally Posted by kannazuki

Fellow manga readers can correct me if I'm wrong but here are what I remember as filler scenes for Jean:
• the infamous "running around exposed to the titans in Trost with no 3dmg" scene
• Jean and Armin talk it out in the last episode in Stohess over Eren not being able to transform
• Jean and Armin hanging out while Eren is in bed recovering

Re: Shingeki no Kyojin Anime Discussion

Originally Posted by kannazuki

Fellow manga readers can correct me if I'm wrong but here are what I remember as filler scenes for Jean:
• the infamous "running around exposed to the titans in Trost with no 3dmg" scene
• Jean and Armin talk it out in the last episode in Stohess over Eren not being able to transform
• Jean and Armin hanging out while Eren is in bed recovering

Can anybody else remember any other such added-in scenes?

Erwin's smile at Eren when in Shinganshina (Ep 1), Marlo from the MP brats seeing corrupted MP's selling 3DMGs, Jean and Marco in the HQ, the whole episode 22. Episode 10 to 12 feels like a huge filler even if it's in the manga (terrible pacing), they could have removed so much and be able to show really interesting trainee days. It would maybe have shown us better the relationships between the characters. I liked the idea of seeing Jean a lot in the anime (he got the most development with Armin within the 15 first chapters) but they could have shown us a bit better how they were initially. The original Night of the Disbanding introduced well the characters while the anime one feels like "meh, we didn't wanted to show that Jean is an ass most of the time, instead we will get the first casualty to talk instead".

They wanted to make Jean look polished and shiny hero who joined the SL to save Humanity because it's his duty, while in the manga it felt more like "the only guy having a decent opinion of me died, frak it, what can I do?".

EDIT: I totally missed the fact that it was Jean's fillers only in your quote, it's 1 AM, let's say I'm forgiven for that, okay?

Re: Plot hypotheses

Originally Posted by Super Sonic

Were Eren's flashbacks in the 1st episode canon?

I haven't heard of any announcement confirming this, so I take it with a grain of salt. (Has anyone else seen anything from Isayama or an editor specifically confirming the dream in the anime to be canon)?

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I'm in episode 4 and many things are becoming clearer in the anime than the manga...

Such as? Presentation is certainly clearer and it's very useful at the beginning-- just wondering if there's specific content you mean?

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Great observation Annie pointed out (which, I guess, I missed in the manga)....

Why is there a system in place in which the soldiers most capable of fighting the titans given the option to never see them again??!!

The more I go into this, the more this kingdom looks like some controlled cage of sort...

Indeed! Yes, I'm pretty sure that was touched on multiple times in the manga. It was the main reason Jean wanted to join the MPs (which is also in the anime).

Re: Shingeki no Kyojin Anime Discussion

Wtf, that's too far...They'll have so much material to adapt. Unless they're going for more than 25 episodes.
Perhaps they made this decision because of the movies that are supposed to come out? There's a LA and an animated movie I think. The anime could overshadow these two projects.

Re: Shingeki no Kyojin Anime Discussion

2016.. you serious!? No way.. that is just too long.. totally not cool. Well yeah, I can complain about it ,but that doesn't change a thing. If that's what they decided than we can't do nothing about it, can we? It is how it is.